Ginette Marotte is politician in

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, Canada. She served on the Montreal city council from 2005 to 2013 and was mayor of the Verdun borough council from 2012 to 2013.

Borough councillor

Marotte was elected for the Champlain division on the Verdun borough council in the

2001 Montreal municipal election The 2001 Montreal municipal election took place on November 4, 2001, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Gérald Tremblay defeated incumbent Pierre Bourque to become mayor of the newly amalgamated city. This was ...

as a candidate of

Gérald Tremblay Gérald Tremblay (born September 20, 1942) is a former Canadian politician and businessman who served as mayor of Montreal from 2002 until his resignation in 2012. He also served as president of the Montreal Metropolitan Community. Before b ...

's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU). She served for a full four-year term. MICU held all of the borough council's five seats in this period, which coincided with Tremblay's first term as mayor.

City councillor and borough mayor

Marotte was elected to the Montreal city council in the 2005 municipal election for the Champlain–L'Île-des-Sœurs division. Tremblay was elected to a second term as mayor in this election, and MICU won a majority of seats on council; Marotte subsequently served as a backbench supporter of the administration. She also continued to serve on the Verdun borough council by virtue of holding her position on city council and was appointed to chair the borough's environment committee. In September 2009, she and borough mayor Claude Trudel introduced the first composter acquired by a municipal administration in Quebec. Marotte was re-elected to city council as a member of the renamed

Union Montreal Union Montreal (french: Union Montréal) is an inactive municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was the governing party in the city from 2001, when it won its first election under mayor Gérald Tremblay, until 2012. The party rem ...

party in the 2009 municipal election. She continued to serve as chair of the borough environment committee and also served on the city's committee on transport and environmental management. Gerald Tremblay's administration became engulfed in a serious corruption scandal in late 2012, and Tremblay resigned as mayor on November 5, 2012. Marotte resigned from Union Montreal shortly thereafter to sit as an independent. Claude Trudel also resigned as borough mayor of Verdun in December 2012, and Marotte was chosen by the other council members as his replacement. She served in this position for a year and did not seek re-election in the 2013 municipal election. During her second term on city council, Marotte served as associate councillor responsible for sustainable development, the environment, and parks, and for Mosaïcultures Internationales Montréal 2013.A larger-than-life program for the Mosaïcultures Internationales Montréal 2013
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Electoral record

References

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